Textermination
Textermination

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780811212168

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In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all are gathered for the Annual Convention of Prayer for Being, to meet, to discuss, to pray for their continued existence in the mind of the modern reader. But what begins as a grand enterprise erupts into total pandemonium: with characters from different times, places, and genres all battling for respect and asserting their own hard-won fame and reputations. Dealing with such topical literary issues as deconstruction, multiculturalism, and the Salman Rushdie affair, this wild and humorous satire pokes fun at the academy and ultimately brings into question the value of determining a literary canon at all.

Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction
Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction

Author: Sarah Birch

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Setting her work firmly in the context of English and French writing as well as literary and feminist theory, Sarah Birch examines the full range of Brooke-Rose's fiction: the early realist novels published between 1957-1961; the strongly anti-realist period beginning with Out (1964), when Brooke-Rose's work was seen to be heavily influenced by French experimental fiction; and the third phase of her development which began with Xorandor (1986) and which marks a questioning return to the traditional techniques of the novel.

Amalgamemnon
Amalgamemnon

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781564780508

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History and literature seem to be losing ground in the contemporary world of electronic media, and battle lines have been drawn between the humanities and technology, the first world and the third, women and men. Narrator Mira Enketei erases these boundaries in a punning monologue that blends the contemporary with the historical, and in which she sees herself as Cassandra, condemned by Apollo to prophesy but never to be believed, enslaved by Agamemnon after the fall of Troy. Here, Brooke-Rose amalgamates ancient literature and modern anxieties to produce a powerful novel about our future.

A Rhetoric of the Unreal
A Rhetoric of the Unreal

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1981-10-15

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780521225618

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This 1981 book is a study of wide range of fiction, from short stories to tales of horror, from fairy-tales and romances to science fiction, to which the rather loose term 'fantastic' has been applied. Cutting across this wide field, Professor Brooke-Rose examines in a clear and precise way the essential differences between these types of narrative against the background of realistic fiction. In doing so, she employs many of the methods of modern literary theory from Russian formalism to structuralism, while at the same time bringing to these approaches a sharp critical intuition and sound common sense of her own. The range of texts considered is broad: from Poe and James to Tolkien; from Flann O'Brien to the American postmodernism. This book should prove a source of stimulation to all teachers and students of modern literary theory and genre, as well as those interested in 'fantastic' literature.

The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus
The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Carcanet Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13:

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"The Brooke-Rose Omnibus brings together four unexpected novels: Out, a science-fiction vision of a world surviving catastrophe; Such, in which a three-minute heart massage is developed into a poetic and funny narrative; Between, a glittering experience of the multiplicity of language; and Thru, a novel in which text and typography assume a life of their own. Linking them all is wit, inventiveness and the sharply focused intellegence of Christine Brooke-Rose, a great European humanist writer."--BOOK JACKET.

Interpretation and Overinterpretation
Interpretation and Overinterpretation

Author: Umberto Eco

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-03-05

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780521425544

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This book brings together some of the most distinguished figures currently at work in philosophy, literary theory and criticism to debate the limits of interpretation.

Thru
Thru

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 176

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Between
Between

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 200

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Subscript
Subscript

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Carcanet Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 232

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The author blends her unique and well developed narratorless technique with a classic extension of a very ancient convention, that of lending words to creatures that have none, indeed have no consciousness, to move steadily through evolution to the arrival of the human species.